WO2002047792A1 - Disc-type filtration apparatus including discharge collector internal to pressure vessel and method of filtration - Google Patents
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- WO2002047792A1 WO2002047792A1 PCT/US2001/046987 US0146987W WO0247792A1 WO 2002047792 A1 WO2002047792 A1 WO 2002047792A1 US 0146987 W US0146987 W US 0146987W WO 0247792 A1 WO0247792 A1 WO 0247792A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D33/00—Filters with filtering elements which move during the filtering operation
- B01D33/15—Filters with filtering elements which move during the filtering operation with rotary plane filtering surfaces
- B01D33/21—Filters with filtering elements which move during the filtering operation with rotary plane filtering surfaces with hollow filtering discs transversely mounted on a hollow rotary shaft
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D33/00—Filters with filtering elements which move during the filtering operation
- B01D33/44—Regenerating the filter material in the filter
- B01D33/46—Regenerating the filter material in the filter by scrapers, brushes nozzles or the like acting on the cake-side of the filtering element
- B01D33/466—Regenerating the filter material in the filter by scrapers, brushes nozzles or the like acting on the cake-side of the filtering element scrapers
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- the present invention relates to disc-type filtration apparatus employed for separation of liquid from a suspension or slurry, such as a lime mud. More specifically, the invention relates to a disc-type filtration apparatus housed within a pressure vessel and employing a positive pressure in conjunction with filter discs to effect the liquid separation, as well as a method of filtration.
- Disc-type filtration apparatus are well known, and have been employed for decades.
- such an apparatus employs one or more hollow filter discs, the sidewalls of which discs are either formed of a porous material or define a frame covered with a porous cover, commonly termed a filter cloth.
- the degree of porosity is selected for the suspension to be filtered, considering the viscosity of the liquid
- the discs are usually circumferentially sectored into compartments, are oriented vertically and mutually laterally spaced along a tube extending along a horizontal axis.
- the interiors of the disc sectors are in communication with the interior of the tube.
- the discs are rotated about the longitudinal axis so as to become coated with the suspension.
- ClariDisc® Filter A commercially available filtration apparatus of the latter type is offered by EIMCO Process Equipment Co. (formerly Baker Process), of Salt Lake City, Utah, assignee of the present invention, as the ClariDisc® Filter.
- ClariDisc® Filter Another commercially available apparatus of the latter type is offered by Kvaerner Pulping AB of Karlstad, Sweden, as the CAUSTEC® PDWTM filter.
- the design of the aforementioned ClariDisc® Filter has been well accepted by customers, as the solids from this filter (comprising filter cake which has been re-slurried), are collected in a sloping outlet trough portion integral with and protruding beyond the cylindrical envelope of a cylindrical pressure vessel portion housing the discs, and discharged from the pressure vessel through a single outlet or multiple outlets.
- CAUSTEC® PDWTM filter which uses a plurality of discharge outlets extending from the exterior of the pressure vessel, one outlet for each disc.
- the CAUSTEC® PDWTM filter is unduly complex and expensive to both build and deploy, due to the use of multiple outlets extending from the cylindrical pressure vessel portion.
- it is also somewhat costly to design and manufacture the trough and outlet assembly for the ClariDisc® Filter, since it functions as part of the outer wall of the pressure vessel and, therefore, must comply with certain governmental or professional engineering standards, the latter exemplified by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section 8 Pressure Vessel Code.
- ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- the present invention provides a positive pressure disc-type filtration apparatus including a collection trough internal to a cylindrical pressure vessel housing the filter discs.
- the collection trough for the inventive apparatus is entirely disposed within the cylinder or cylindrical envelope of the pressure vessel and thus may be configured and located without concern for pressure differentials to receive and direct filter cake removed from the discs and then reslurried and sluiced toward the center of the trough using flowing liquid, to be discharged longitudinally centrally through a single outlet extending downwardly from the trough and through the side wall of the pressure vessel cylinder.
- the present invention also encompasses a method of filtration wherein a suspension may be separated within a cylindrical envelope of a pressure vessel into filter cake and filtrate at a plurality of laterally spaced locations and the filter cake collected from the plurality of spaced locations to a single location within the cylindrical envelope for discharge from the pressure vessel.
- FIG. 1 is a transverse sectional view of the filtration apparatus of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a top view of a portion of the filtration apparatus of the present invention showing the collection trough disposed within the cylinder of the pressure vessel, with the pressure vessel shown in broken lines for clarity;
- FIG. 3 is a side view of a lower portion of the filtration apparatus of the present invention showing the collection trough disposed within the cylinder of the pressure vessel, with the pressure vessel shown in broken lines for clarity;
- FIG. 4 is a side view of a discharge chute and the collection trough.
- filtration apparatus 10 of the present invention includes a pressure vessel 12 having a substantially cylindrical envelope and defined in part by side wall 14, which substantially defines a cylinder concentric with a longitudinal vessel axis PV. Access hatches 16, slurry inlet conduit 18 and filter cake (also termed “mud cake”) outlet conduit 20 extend through the side wall 14. A plurality of filter discs 24 (for example, and in this instance, six) are disposed within pressure vessel 12.
- the filter discs 24 each include multiple sectors 26 as known in the art, which communicate with the interior of one or more central filtrate discharge tubes 28 (a single tube being employed in this embodiment), an end of which (not shown) also extends through an end of pressure vessel 12 to effectuate removal of the liquid component of the suspension under filtration drawn therefrom under differential pressure through filter cloths disposed on the exteriors of the sectors 26 which collectively form the filter discs 24.
- the axis DT of the filtrate discharge tube 28 is laterally offset from the longitudinal axis PV of the pressure vessel 12.
- a disc wash assembly 30 is associated with each filter disc 24, as is a high pressure shower assembly 32 for disc cleaning, the latter movable by drive assembly 34 in an oscillating fashion through arc 36 as shown in FIG. 1.
- a discharge scraper 38 in the form of doctor blades flanks each filter disc 24 for removal of mud cake from the exterior thereof.
- Trough 40 Disposed within pressure vessel 12 and partially laterally offset and extending below filter discs 24 (see FIG. 1) is a mud cake collection trough 40.
- Trough 40 is elongate and extends beyond the longitudinally outermost filter disc 24 of the row of filter discs 24.
- Trough 40 includes two inclined bottom walls 42 extending to the side wall 14 of pressure vessel 12 and sloping downwardly away from the horizontal midplane of pressure vessel 12 as well as toward the longitudinal center of the trough 40, where opening 44 communicates trough 40 with mud cake outlet conduit 20 (FIGS. 1 and 3).
- Trough 40 is further configured on its inner side with a plurality of discharge chutes 46, one substantially parallel to and flanking each side of each filter disc 24, to receive mud cake removed from the sides of the filter discs 24 by discharge scraper 38.
- discharge chutes 46 each include an elongated open mouth 48 at an upper extent thereof. Each open mouth 48 is of a length sufficient to receive mud cake falling from the discharge scrapers 38 substantially spanning the radius of the filter discs 24 between central filtrate discharge tube 28 and the filter discs' outer edges.
- the open mouth 48 is desirably of a length which corresponds to a radial length of the filtering area of the sectors 26 (e.g., the distance between the outer radius of the filter discs 24 and the radius of the central filtrate discharge tube 28).
- Each discharge chute 46 further includes two side walls 50 oriented substantially parallel to filter discs 24, and an inclined lower wall 52 extending between side walls 50 and sloping downwardly from mouth 48 and away from the center of pressure vessel 12 toward the side wall 14 thereof.
- the outer extents of discharge chutes 46 comprise openings 54 into the outer collection portion 56 of trough 40, wherein inclined bottom walls 42 lead to opening 44.
- Spray heads 58 fed by manifold 60 direct jets or other flows of fluid, such as, for example, water into discharge chutes 46 to prevent accumulation of mud cake on the side walls 50 thereof and to dilute the mud cake scraped off filter discs 24 to enhance sluicing thereof into opening 44 for discharge from pressure vessel 12 through outlet conduit 20.
- fluid such as, for example, water
- the configuration of the trough 40 and discharge chutes 46 is such that the open mouths 48 are positioned above an intended slurry liquid level during operation of the filter 10.
- the discharge chutes 46 and trough 40 thus form a barrier separating discharged filter cake from the slurry contained in the pressure vessel 12.
- Such an arrangement allows the discharge and initial collection of the filter cake to take place entirely within the substantially cylindrical envelope of the pressure vessel 12 in a continuous filtration process.
- each trough 40 for removal of the filter cake.
- the filter 10 includes twelve filter discs 24 it may be desirable to include two troughs 40, each having an associated opening 40 and each being configured to collect filter cake from six filter discs 24.
- the invention is not limited to a single trough 40 for each six filter discs 24 and that the above described embodiments are simply exemplary. Rather, numerous configurations are contemplated wherein one or more troughs 40 may be used with each trough 40 being associated with multiple discharge chutes 46 such that the number of outlet conduits 20 formed in the sidewall 14 of the pressure vessel 12 is less than the number of discharge chutes 46 contained therein.
- the number of troughs 40 formed in a given filter 10 may depend on such factors as the number of filter discs 24 present in the filter 10, the viscosity or flowability of the filter cake, and the minimum allowable angle of the bottom walls 42 which still provides sufficient gravity for collection and removal of the filter cake.
- the outlet conduits 20 and associated openings 44 need not be in the longitudinal center of the trough 40. Rather, the opening 44 may be formed at any longitudinal location along the trough 40.
- a single bottom wall 42 may extend from one longitudinal end of the trough 40 to an opening 44 at the opposing longitudinal end of the trough.
- the present invention may be easily adapted to various plant layouts wherein locating associated piping may be a concern.
- a filter which draws a vacuum through the discharge tube 28 while maintaining an ambient pressure at the exteriors of the filter discs 24 may likewise incorporate a trough 40 such as described above.
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CA2431407A CA2431407C (en) | 2000-12-12 | 2001-12-06 | Disc-type filtration apparatus including discharge collector for the filter cake internal to the pressure vessel and method of filtration |
EP01995409A EP1419000B1 (en) | 2000-12-12 | 2001-12-06 | Disc-type filter |
AU2002225980A AU2002225980A1 (en) | 2000-12-12 | 2001-12-06 | Disc-type filtration apparatus including discharge collector internal to pressure vessel and method of filtration |
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US3193105A (en) * | 1961-02-06 | 1965-07-06 | Improved Machinery Inc | Continuous disc filter |
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US3193105A (en) * | 1961-02-06 | 1965-07-06 | Improved Machinery Inc | Continuous disc filter |
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